Ellie Chowns

We saw a steady-as-she-goes budget, and it's just not going to cut it.

Ellie Chowns, who's leader of the Green Party group in the Commons, said the Chancellor was too cautious.

What the country needs is bold action to help people who are really struggling under the impact of the cost of living crisis and bold investments.

Instead, it looks really like Healy is shuffling the deck chairs.

Should I go first? Go on then, go on then.

I think I would like to see Zach Polanski and Ellie Chowns, friends of the show, and Ed Davey with Daisy Cooper in a reboot of The Good Life, where Zach and Ellie try to be self-sustained with hilarious consequences while the liberal next door neighbors basically take the mickey out of them.

And eventually they all become quite good friends.

Yeah.

That's why there was the delay, because they didn't do the process properly.

Ellie Chowns is the leader of the Green Party in Westminster, an MP for North Herefordshire.

Torkel Crichton is the Labour MP for Nahailan and Anyar, or the Western Isles, where he was contending with Storm Austin when we spoke.

I asked for their reaction to the government's decision.

The future has to be clean and green.

The faster we move towards that, the better it is for everybody.

Ellie Chowns and Torcuil Crichton.

The high cost of energy is only one piece of the economic jigsaw puzzle confronting the Chancellor, John Healey, as he finalises his first budget, which he'll deliver next Wednesday.

He says we live in the most extraordinary country in the world that has consistently reinvented itself in times of pressure.

Ellie Chowns is the Green Party spokesperson on foreign affairs and defence, among other issues.

She says allowing more gas from the North Sea is like pouring fuel on the fire of climate breakdown.

Stephanie Flanders is head of economics and government at Bloomberg News.

Um, of the politicking part of it, do you think that there is an aspect that the Labour Party are going to be kind of making... well, not making maneuvers, but there is gonna be kind of whispering behind the scenes of like, "Well, this isn't very green.

This isn't very net zero of you to be given." 'Cause I think at PMQs today, Ellie Chowns pointed out only 27 jobs are gonna be created by this new contract.

Dr. Ellie Chowns

ChownsThank you, Mr.

Speaker.

it's like, I think the lady doth protest, you know? It's like, relax a little.

But anyway, I sent you over this from Ricky over at Council of State Media, and he wrote, the motion faced nauseating opposition from some senior figures in the Green Party, like Ellie Chowns, Adrian Ramsey, Carolyn Lucas, and Carla Dinier.

They told us the usual crap about how this was all nuanced and too complicated for us simpletons to understand.

Adrian Ramsey insisted the motion doesn't reflect green principles.

Well, I've been quite interested in the Green Party and everything that's been happening this week in the wake of slight disappointment in Hobart and St Pancras by-election for Zach Polanski and the furious row over their Zionism is racism motion and failure to protect Jews within their own party as they passed it.

There's been a bit of a backlash from the old guard of Green MPs, people like Caroline Lucas, Ellie Chowns, all talking about how there's been entryism in the party and how they've got to sort of get back control of the party from a hard left fringe.

And...

I think it's quite difficult because if you look at the way the Green Party works, anybody who's a member can just turn up to their conference and vote.